“So how does Wishart tell a 13,000-year-long story in a 150-plus-page book? Of necessity, he soars high above the landscape to delineate the big picture. Then he drops altitude, examining this or that detail more closely. These shifts in perspective are carefully chosen and engagingly written . . . Wishart’s little book is a testament to the richness of [American Indian] cultures and the grit and determination that has sustained them.”

“In sum, this book is not only extremely entertaining; as a mostly informal but thoughtful exposition of folklore and in its explication of various traditional oral narrative genres, it would not be out of place in an introductory folklore or folk narrative course . . . I knew I would enjoy it—but maybe not quite this much.”

“Dr. Raviv’s work is intricately woven and historically accurate . . . This book is an excellent cultural and culinary history in the making of Israel’s modern day identity, and how religious and secular ideologies surprisingly worked together to unify the nation.”